The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 3, 1946, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 1946 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS = = PRICE TEN CENTS VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,313 [ —————— | ONLY 14 ATOM TARGET SHIPS NOTDAMAGED Six Bullseye Craft Are Still Emitting Lethal Rays- Observer Appalled ABOARD USS APPALACHIAN,| July 3.—Fifty-nine of Bikini's 3 target warships felt Monday's white-hot atomic blast, the Navy, reported today, with damage rang- ing from total to negligible. Six remained dangerously radio- active today. ‘ | | | The Washington| Merry - Go- Round By DREV—V—EARSON WASHINGTON—Fresident Tru- man did not exaggerate when he| told his radio listeners that he had | given the price-control veto most| serious consideration. According to his close advisers, he worried more and longer over this than over any other step he has ever taken. ‘ The President’s decision to veto was virtually made at a Thursday night conference in the White | House, attended by his cabinet and| them Secre- | economic advisers. Part of were opposed to the veto. tary of the Treasury John Civilian Production Administrator John Small, 2nd Secretary of the Interior “Cap” Kruz felt Y.hat‘ President Truman should accept| the compromise price-control bill| 'RUMANIAN POLICE STEADYING BUCHAREST, July 3.—Rumanian |dun Fastikovsky, 23, typist in the of the Associated PRICES ARE x5 spy suspect Refail Prices on Meat, But-| “bice (i ap corespondent t 'l' k U dSh 1 | Frank O'Brien that Fastikovsky er lake upwar 001 | was arrested for “subversive activ- A C I | ity against U nians” and work- Over OPA Ceilings | ing "r the Germans ' 1902 ana X AT | 1942, Fastikovsky has been an AP (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) | employee for several months. Rising livestock prices and the| His case has been turned over to loss of government subsidies brough | the Russians “because of the in- higher prices to the meat, milk and| tense Russian interest in anything butter buying public today as the [ connected with the Ukraine,” ac- nation’s wholesale markets steadied|cording to the police. No formal under a growing conviction that|charges have been preferred. OPA will be restored with a roll| Fastikovsky, whom O'Brien was back to June 30 ceilings. permitted to see, maintained his 2 PRICE CONTROL BILL R REDDIPLCMAT SEES NO NEED FORU. 5. WAR [Clash of Interests Not In- evifable, Newest Am- bassador Confends | WASHINGTON, July 3.—Nikolail Novikov, new Russian Ambassador to this country, promised today | that the Soviet Union “will never| start a war against the United | States or anyone else.” | And by the same token, he said {he knew that the people of this| | country do not want to fight any-; { one. | | GIVECONCERT AT 8 TONIGHT The Juneau City Band, 32 musi- cians and majorette, will be one of the features of the city's Fourth Five, including one modern Cruis-| gegpite its unworkable features, and | er, were sunk: nine others, h\clud—‘“.y to make it work. | ing two battleships, two cruisers| ‘sgtorney General Tom Clark at and a carrier were “heavily dam- | firgt ggreed with them. He viewed aged.” Damage to small craft W“silhe veto message from a political not_ tallied !angle and told the President he| The Army's official ground forcesipateq to see him break with his observer, Maj. Gen. Anthony Mc-|g60q friends on Capitol Hill, parti- Auliffe, concluded the new Wea- cyjarly Speaker Sam Rayburn and price | innocence of anything but mem- the | bership in a Ukrainian cultural so- Senate Banking committee in| ciety of long standing in Ruthenia. Washington after U. S. Sen. W. Lee| His a t followed an anonymous O'Daniel (D-Tex) abandoned his| denunciation. stalling tactics. The House already has approved a 20-day extension of the OFA . MOSCOW WRITERS Tl first shipments of butter Two measures to revive | controls temporarily reached - But while he insisted that flll‘uf July celebration. differences between the two major| The present organization is the powers can be “ironed out” he|largest since the old Treadwell days cauticned that solutions for many!when Juneau and Douglas vied for world problems will require time cracker-jack bands. The appear- and patience. |ance will also be the first time in The diplomat’s views were made several rs a band has partici- | known in his first interview with pated in the parade on the Fourth lan American veporter since he pre- to enliven the day. pon would force any nation, even the United States, to quit a war— although he believed it would be more effective against cities and industries than military targets. No One Could Survive “I hope I never see another one iike that thing,” he sighed to news- men. He said he knew of no de- fense except to shoot it down, or to send airborne troops to its source of production in an enemy country. He said he did not believe any, man could have survived on the decks of the target vessels in the innermost, hardest-hit group. Test animals left aboard the fleet survived the first blast, however; even those abuard the centrally-an-| chored Nevada still lived. But whe-| ther their exposure to atomic rays would prove fatal within the next few days was to be determined. Sailors said ove goat on the Neva- da’s quarterdeck was “mighty sick.” { Similarly, eight white rats sur- vived a ride directly through the atomic cloud itself, but they may die within three or four days, Col. R. E. Jarmon Wright Field Evaluation Board, re- ported. The rats were the sole pas- sengers in a B-17 drone. Central Targets Radioactive Centrally-anchored target ships still were emutting deadly rays to- day, said reports from Vice Adm. W. H. P. Blandy’s flagship, the Mt. McKinley. Included in this “hot” group were the Nevada, Ar-| kansas, submarine Skate, transport | Crittenden, a yard oil tender and a, floating drydnck. The Skate was beached at Enyo Island, more thzn; four miles frou: Bikini, because Navy officers a its radioactiv-| ity might contaminate Bikini’s swimming beach. | All vessels are expected to be ruled “safe” by tomorrow. The| waters of the lagoon itself were| termed safe today, except in the| immediate vicinity of the radiat- | ing ships. Senator Would Like To Talk fo Goat At Atom Bomb Test ABOARD U. S. APPALACHIAN, | July 3—Sen. Guy Cordon (D-Ore) said today he would have a far| better idea of the test “if only IJ could talk to one of those goats I saw calmly munching hay onj the decks of the bombed ships. was impressed that much wood on the target ships was scarcely char- red while nearby metals were burn- ed and twisted.” STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, July 3. — Closing| quotation of Alaska Juneau mine| stock today is 8%, Alleghany Cor- poration 6%, American Can 100%,‘ Anaconda 48%, Commonwealth andl Southern 5%, Curtiss-Wright 7%,/ International Harvester 97, Ken- necott 58%, New York Central 25%, Northern Pacific 30%, United Cor- poration, 5%. U. 8. Steel 9}, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 650,000 shares. Dow, Jones averages today are| as follows: inductrials 207.06, rails| 65.37, utilities 41.73. ————— The barber pole is a relic uf the days when barbers were also sur- geons. Senate majority leader Barkley. Later, when the decision was made in favor of the veto, however, the Attorney General went to bat vig- orously and helped White House advisers write the message. Advisers who carried the ball in the inner White House debate Thursday night were OPA Admin- istrator Paul Porter, who practi- cally camped at the White House during the week; Chester Bowles,| who is retirig as Economic Sta-| bilizer; John Steelman, the new | War Reconverter, who has become; one of the closest advisers to the| President; and Secretary of Com-l merce Henry Wallace. { Backing thum up were the De- partment of Agriculture—though it/ was not vigorous—and Housing Ad-| ministrator Wilson Wyatt, who| though not present at the meet-| ing, sent his representative, and who was vigorous. | BREAK WITH LEADERS | Later, when President Truman| sat down with his four Congres-| | sional leaders on Friday, he 2lmost | terqay at Chicago. changed his mind. He told friends| Chief of the Army’s afterward that he knew how hard pjgher prices though they still were| and loyally they had worked to| ass a price-control bill, and he| simply hated to go against their| advice. However, his main argu- ment to them was that the half- breed price-control bill would not | work. The Taft amendment, he| especially argued, was absolultely impossible, and he cited account- ancy experts of various big man-| ufacturing firms, all of them against OPA, who branded the Taft | cost-plus formula as likely to bring| chaos to industry. i “I just have o put what T con-| sider the country’s welfare firs the President tcld his Congressional | leaders. “Let’s not fool the country and give them something that won't work.” | When they told him that they would not be able to persuade their reluctant colleagues to pass any sort of price-control bill, the Presi- dent replied: “If jt's this or nothing, then we'll just have to take nothing.” Among other things, the Presi- dent figured that during the chaotic period sure to follow if the polyglot price-control bill were passed, Congress would claim it was his fault for not making the bill work, when, in actual fact, the bill was unworkable. He felt also that (Continued on Page Four) PRICES FOR FISH AT KETCHIKAN SOAR UP KETCHIKAN, Alaska, July 3— Prices on halibut and most sal- mon have advanced more than one- third since the removal of price ceilings. Bidding on the fish exchange, for the first time since the estab- lishment of OPA ceilings, brought 19 1-2 and 18 1-3 cents a pound for the 32,000 pound catch of the halibut vessel Wireless. Another catch brought 19 and 18 1-2, Under OPA ceilings,the maximum was 14 1-4 and 12 3-4. Red king salmon sold for 28, compared with 20 1-2 for large and 16 3-4 for small under OPA; whites brought 20, compared with a 12 1-2 ceiling; cohoes 16 1-2, compared with 15. Kings are known as chinooks and cohoes as springs on the Seattle market, sented his Ambassadorial letters to President Truman June 3. | “There is no basis whatever for [ war between the Soviet Union and ithe United States,” declared the 3 L stocky, 43-year-old Russian. arw::n“ pr:‘]‘:::}sl “:né‘;- (‘:rr))lfi]'l\‘ pror::‘lncj‘. By Bambert Tasses “m enlgnm O’zi]nq that snlL:li;;ns to €as as e e 1% ‘wor préblems can not be ex- Mik was boosted three cents a| MOSCOW, July 5.— A Pravdailoed'overmight, Novikov said: quart in New Hampshire and a commentator declared today that “Europe is mow in its most dif- milk shortage was threatended in| the Bikini atom bomb test had|gouie period—the transition from the metropolitan New York area “basically undermined war to peace. Problems inevitably {will be difficult " | confidence , unless the price is raised there. ! The Ambassador emphatically r |in the seriousness of American talks In Wall Street, uncertainty over about atomic disarmament.” the possible refurrecnondf)f \.ht;‘ % "Thr" balumuy“ bon:ib test flld x.mt: jected any idea that serious clashes OPA—coupled with t“he a w‘nt vu Lnng about l.‘Ae end of the wolld,\m‘ interest between Russia and the a lf)ng_ July 4 weekn_d holiday— ‘ut it blew up something more es: | United .States are “inevitable” or| again inspired speculative and in-|sential than a pair of old ships, “necessary.” The reporter had used | vestment caution and wrcte tho commentator, Boris Iza- | 4,50 woréls in framing one of six market was quiet and ; kov, in the Communist party news- | written questions submitted in ad-| Abnormally large shipments ot paper. {vance of yesterday's interview. | cattle and hogs again were attract-| “And why, really, did the expen-1 ' mp. Ambassador said good faith| ed to livestock markets, but prices sive and troublesome experimems’by both nations, built by “practical | seemed to have found thelr 0Wn at Bikini atoll have to be conduct- getions and deeds” in carrying out ceiling, at least temporarily. ed if the United States is seriously | S i N * 4 i mutual obligations, will prevent| The $22 high for cattle «t S going to turn away from the{guon clashes | Louls was & new top-for that marjagmic weapon? ! "He voiced ome criticism of the| ket although it was 50 cents Un-| “The test bore witness, not @boutiypireq States: his contention that| der the $22.50 maximum paid Yes-| preparations for destroying this{ g coum,y‘ " lbng o Eritain} weapon, but, on the contrary, ahout|anq France, is not carrying out the | reach New York City and Roston markets since OPA’s end were re- leased today to retail 13 to 15| cents above the OPA ceiling. The| government subsidy on butter was/ 15 cents a pound. DISCUSS RESULTS Hogs were moving at slghtly work for its improvement. TENSION | “As could have been expected, the test confirmed that the atomic | weapon has enormous destructive |force, although results appeared | more modest than the American | press predicted.” - e going at the $1850 top reached at Chicago on Monday. S Sieamer Is Tied Up INCREASING SeanersTidUp IN TRIESTE Lomyshors o | f KETCHIKAN, ALASKA, July |The steamer Clove Hitch, with 175 |tens of Ketchikan cargo aboard, |remained idle at the Alaska Steam- {ship Company dock today because ‘of a longshoremen’s work stoppage. Police Take Over Com- mums' Quaflers |The longshoremen complain they have not received a wage increase TRIESTE, July 3.—American and|,g,r40q June 15 to the committee British troops and Venezia Giulia ¢ Marine Unity. police took possession of Commun- | ist Party headquarters in the| s Currency Inflation Reporfed, Hungary strongly Leftist San Glacomo: BUDAPEST, Hungary, July 2.— American, Briish Troops, workers’ district of Trieste today. | The building was thoroughly! searched for weapons, but only stones were found. Allied troops mounted on armored cars and Bren| gun carriers maintained a ring of steel around both the San Giacomo district and Garbaldi Square, scene; of mob violence earlier this week.| Col. J. C. Smuts, Trieste area commander, announced the occupa- tion of Communist headquarters. After the initial search, only Bri- jn general circulation. tish troops were stationed there. In June, 1939, the The situation in Trieste and sur-!worth 29.12 cents. rounding area continued tense,ljts value had sunk to 1-100th of a partly aggravated by reports from}pennyl Paris that Venezia Giulia would be <L PSR, severed from Italy, The generalie @« @« ¢ @ © o o -~ -~ ® » « strike of 200,000 workers, called at| e WEATHER REPORT ¢ noon Monday because. of riqting,|e (U. 8. WEATHEK BUREAU) had eased somewhat today. A few Temperatures for 24-Hour Period street cars were in use, but port Ending 6:30 0'Clock This Morning operations remained at a stand- e o o still. Two persons were killed and In Juneau—Maximum, 63; 60 injured in the riots. minimum, 50. BREREN L . A At Airport—Maximum, 65; SIGN'S AFIRE minimum, 48. was worth 100 quadrillion pengos today in Hungary, swept by one of the most fantastic inflations of history. The economy of Hungary | was approaching complete chaos. |Ten quadrillion-pengo notes were pengo was | Short-circuited wiring flared to| call out Juneau firemen to Fred Henning’s store at Front and| Franklin here this morning at 7:55 o’clock. The short was in the neon sign in front of the clothing store and damage was confined to burn- ed wires. The 1-4 alarm was tapped out at 8:13 o'clock. WEATHER FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Partly cloudy with light rain showers and intermit- tent sunshine tonight and . . . . ° . . . e Thursday. ® 0000 coe0 0000 (Delayed)—A United States dollar‘I By last October | Potsdam Big Three agreement on| | German reparations. In response | | to a written question as to how the | United States could best help Rus-| Isia rebuild its areas devastated by | ! the war, he wrote: | “First of all, we wish the Allies,| including the United States would | {carry out the agreements on Te-| { parations from Germany, especially !m respect to deliveries from the | western areas of Germany to the R. | would facilitate our recon- |struction of the devastated terri- i tories of the US.SR.” PHILIPPINE ISLES ' BECOME FREED | REPUBLIC TODAY MANILA, Thursday, July 4.— War-torn but free, the Philippine Islands become a Republic this Fourth of July. A dependence of the United States since the Spanish-American ! War, the islands gain their inde-! :pendence through the Tydings- i McDuffie Act after a 10 year in- terim period as a commonwealth.| Today was a day of ceremonies; and wild rejoicing. | General of the Army Douglas' MacArthur, wio led the liberation of the islands from the Japanese, was the honor guest. Representa- tives of more than 50 countries were on hand. | MacArthur and other dignitaries, lincluding U. S. Senator Millard| | Tydings of Maryland and U. S. High i i Nutt, were scheduled to be the principal speakers. \ in as the first President. A | PATHE NxWSMEN HERE Two Pathe Newsmen, assigned to a photographic coverage of Al-| aska, arrived here yesterday tmm} New York City by Pan American | Alrways. They are William K. Mc- | ! Clure and William Deeke, both ul’i { i | | is accompanying him. The three| New Yorkers are registered at the| Baranof Hotel. [ St It is estimated that for every American 241 pounds of paper pro- ducts are consumed each year, 1 I The band, under the direction of Joseph Shofn has steadily gain- ed both in size and technical pro- ficiency and new music was re- cently added to the already large libr Besides taking part m the parade, an open-air concert will be given at 8 o'clock tonight at Triangle place, rain or shine. The program is as follows: “Them Ba ..” “Crusaders of Liberty, “Schnitzelback,” novelty “The Viking" march. “E Pluribus Unum,” march. “Tigef Rag,” “Columbia,” patriotic medley. pangled Banner.” - overture. number, PEACE MEET, 21 NATIONS, IS FORECAST Rafion Bread Foreign Ministers Report- apor Situation in U. .| ed Near Agreement on ltalian Treaty PARIS, July 3.—The u ssibility that a 2l-nation peace conference might be convened here in a matter of weeks was forecast by compet- ¢nt observers today amid indica- tions that the Foreign Minis Council was near agreement on all important phases of the Italian peace treaty. Chief point still to be resolved by the four Foreign Minist: the question of how- the city of Trieste should be administered un- der a French proposal for inter- nationalization of the dis *d port —a proposal on which the council egreed in principle yester There was widespread belief, rowever, that this issue would not prove too difficult and that U. S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes might realize his desire that a general peace conference be con- voked before the end of the month. Soviet Foreign Minister Vyache- slav Molotov himself was quoted by the British spokesman as saying after yesterday's council meeting that the four powers had come so close to settling the Treiwste prob- lem that a few more talks would produce a concrete proposal which would be taken before a peace con- ference. The meetis 2 yesterday ended with the Unite¢ d Concer! Tonight Will Start Fourth Celebration; Parade, §porls on Tomorrow CITYBANDTO ball. was v - government was determined to do| Fiates amd Great Brit-) ain holding out for' United Na- }lions _suw rvision of an interna-' (Delayed) —Russian soldiers | tionalized Trieste while Russia and stakes along the eastern Manuel Roxas was to be sworn France favored placing the admin- frontier today, indicating perman- istration under the Big Four. (UB SCOUTS T BE IN FOURTH PARADE Juneau cubs will meet tomorrow voters of Bialystck Province | | | | EACH SENATE | EXTENSION FOR OPA IS UNDERWAY ‘Plan New Lease of Life Un- il July 20 - House i | With the Juneau City an open-air ek tonight Band giv- concert at the Triangle ace and a public dance at 10 o'clock in the Elks Ballroom, Ju- neau will start celebrating July Fourth. Flags are floating over the! Adts Favorably streets, merchants are to make| o atriotic displ fn their windows | . "\ ACONCIION WIS 8 -y SN and the clty's youngsters are alll houres 10 revive price controls set for the parade with costumes| C.ched the Senate Banking Come and decorated vehicles, and ready | ma e, (0" consideration today ater for the sport events. 7| Senatct O'Daniel (D-Tex) aban- Tomorow ~ forefidan . thete doned the blmflkmg tactics that had be 8 parade, starting on stull‘vd |_hum ior three days. Franklin street at Marine ODaniel gave up after making the: Winter' and Pond-'dorper: 1a jocular morion to refer the bills r in will lower | Way, The Juneau City Band will start the march at exactly 10:30 o'clock. A color guard will head the parade. In the parade will be various marching groups, floats, children in costumes and with their decor- ated vehicles, private cars and Ju- neau’s pride, the Volunteer Fire De- to the Committee on pensions. He said that seemed the logical place for them, as 65,000 former employees of OPA now have noth- ing to do. Majority leader Barkley suggest- ied O'Daniel's motion was out of (order, and Senator Maybank (D- | 8C), acting president pro tempore, partment. The line of March up | upheld Barkley. ower Franklin Street to Triangle| The two bills—one already passed Place, turn into Front street at|bY the House, the other introduced Race Drug Store corner, along|i? the Senate by Banking Com- Front Street down to Main, down,Mittee Chairman Wagner (D-NY) Main to Willoughby Avenue and | —&re identical out Willoughby Avenue to the Ball| Each would grant OPA a tempor- Park, where the parade will dns-1 ary extension of life, until July 20, band. to give Congress time to work out Starting at 12 o'clock noon, the| Permanent legislation if possible. children’s sport events will take/ There appeared, meanwhile, sev- place. teral signs that the coalition which At 3 o'clock the Moose and Le- mclded the Presidentially-vetoed gion, City League teams, will play K OPA extender might be falling ‘apart. In the evening at 7:30 o'clock,| Senator Murdock (D-Utah) said there will be a PFinn Horse con- that as a member of the Banking test; at 8 o'clock a pie eating con-, Committee he has received con- test, both at Triangle Place, andcrete indications that some Demo- at 9 o'clock a street dance, spon- crats who joined in whittling down sored by the Teen-Age ciub, in'OPA have had a change of heart. front of their club quarters on low-| “I think the President has solidi- er Seward street. {fied his party behind his position - on the price contrel question as it never was solidified before,” Mur- will be 1 dock told a reporter. Sitka Child Flown South; Glass in Eye SEATTLE, July 3.—Darlene Joy, 6, who flew here from her home in | Sitka, Alaska, with a piece of glass lodiged in her left eye, was recover- ing today after an operation. Dar- Congress Trends, Giv- en as Reasons ene’s mother, Mrs. William R. Joy, brought the girl here after she was LONDON, July 3.—Food Minister|struck in the eye by a piece of John Strachey asserted today that|glass from a shattered carbonated- Britain decided to ration bread|water bottle. rather than “gamble on American: labor tions and on the (-oursvi of things in congress.” i He called on the United States to| Felp feed the British occupational 7one of Germany or “face the poli-| tical and , social consequences to stern Europe.” He asserted that congress’ action in the price con- trol dispute also would determine whether there would be any inter-! uption in U. S. exports. Mentioning the recent U. S. mari- | fims strike, Strachey told the| House of Commons there was no guarantee against a recurrence. He said he believed the U. S. | PROPERTY SALES ‘Topping recent realty transactions here is the purchase of the Fifth Street Apartments by Alex Holden from H. B. Foss. Holden later re- sold one-half interest to A. B. Hayes. Other property transfers record- ed during the past week are: Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mcllhardy to Donald P. Balmat, house and lot in Douglas; Julius Heinemann to Mrs. Matt Halm, house and lot near Willoughby Avenue Gold Creek Bridge; Carl Meier to Pa- tricia T. Mayo, Fritz Cove tract. J. T. Petrich to James A. Sofoulis, residence and lot at Seventh and Main streets; Sam Feldon to Fern | Williams, house and lot in Basin {Road district; Mr. and Mrs. Scott L. Murphy to Carlos W. Holland, homestead tract seven and one-half miles out on Glacier Highway; Gustaf Savela to Julius Heinemann, house and lot near Sixth and Ken- nedy Streets. its utmost to meet foreign grain| commitments, but that he did not{ know whether it would be able to| do so. VS SRR SOVIET SOLDIERS DRIVING STAKES | ON CURZON LINE BIALYSTOK, Poland, July 2.—| dro Polish -ea FISH LANDINGS ‘The price of black cod went up to 12.4 cents per pound at yesterday’s fish auction but medium halibut the Curzon,dropped from 16 to 14% cents and line as the frontier. Zlmge halibut from 14 to 12% cents. Russian and Polish commission-| Landing fish yesterday were: Ole ers have made minor rectifications | Westby's Ocesnic, 31,000 pounds of of the line in a five-klometer area.|halibut and black cod; Frank Ol- A tally of ballots in the Sunday|Sen's Defiance, 11,000 pounds of referendum indicated that some|black cod; the Elfin II, 35000 had | Pounds of king salmon, all bought ent establishment of morning at 10 o'clock at the Alaska expressed resentment over cession bY Alaska Coastal Fisheries; and New York City. Mr. McClure's wife| Dock to get in formation for the of Lwow and Wilno to Russia un.,OIBI Larsen’s Arden, 30,000 pounds Fourth of Juiy parade. Cubs are requested to go in full uniform, “or as much uniform as cannot be quoted by name said 90 sald Cubmaster Bob percent voted non-approval of the 000 pounds each boy has,’ der the territorial change. ,of black cod, bought by Sebastian- An authoritative informant whe | Stuart Co. Dan Tweit’s Valiant landed 31,- and Peter Oswald’s Treat. Shoes are to be shined re- provisional regime's acts national. Tundra, 15,000 pounds of black cod, splendently and each pressed. uniform izing basic industries and establish- but neither catch had been sold ing agrarian changes. early this afternoon,